{"id":70327,"date":"2023-05-16T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=70327"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:49","slug":"colby-davis-resets-the-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-quarter-mile-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2023\/05\/colby-davis-resets-the-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-quarter-mile-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Colby Davis Resets the Dodge Charger SRT®<\/sup> Hellcat Quarter-Mile Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past few years, the world record for the quickest quarter-mile time for a Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat was held by Zdung Ho, but on May 6th<\/sup>, U.S. Army veteran Colby Davis set and reset the record during the course of competition at the Street Car Braggin Rights at Carolina Dragway. Davis piloted his SRT Hellcat sedan to the win in the Heavyweight class with a stunning 7.536 at 181 miles per hour, after running a 7.61 earlier in the evening \u2013 leaving no question that this is the new world\u2019s quickest Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The process of building Colby Davis\u2019 2019 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat took about 18 months, with the first dyno session on a \u201creal conservative tune\u201d yielding 1,838 rear wheel horsepower. Around this time, FuelTech suggested that Davis talk to Nicolas Performance to prepare the car for track time, including onsite tuning and track support. Working with Nicolas Performance, Davis spent around six weeks testing and fine tuning before entering the Heavyweight class at the Streetcar Braggin Rights event at Carolina Dragway, otherwise known as \u201cThe House of Hook\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Testing on Friday before the event did not go well, with Davis\u2019 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat spinning the tires hard twice on three tries, with the best pass of the day resulting in a qualifying time of 11.52 before the day was ended by the rain. That time put Davis 18th out of the 20 cars in the field, with only 16 making it into the actual heads-up racing portion of the program. Fortunately, he had two more changes to turn in a stronger qualifying run on Saturday and on his first, the team loaded what Davis called a \u201cbaby tune\u201d, but it still spun the tires on launch, resulting in no improvement in his qualifying number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe go back to the pits. Make shock adjustments and lower tire pressure. It\u2019s truly scramble mode time. I call it panic mode. My tuner, cool as a cucumber. Nothing phases him. Last qualifying pass, car hooks, we’re off, feels great … ran 7.74 at 165 mph. I didn’t know where the finish line was and got out of the gas too soon and threw the parachute. Who knows if we would have broken the world record on that pass,\u201d said Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen the announcer comes over the PA. Everyone gets one more qualifying pass. What do we do, turn up the boost and more timing … we blew the tires off, spun. Now I\u2019m not confident in the track holding any more power. Nicolas Performance says, ‘Just wait, the track will come around. Just wait.’ Now we\u2019re #2 qualifier behind the #1 qualifier, George Benson, 7.73 to our 7.74. We’re just one hundredth of a second apart. George has been dominating the Heavyweight division for the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the first round of competition, Colby Davis got a single pass when his competitor couldn\u2019t make the lane call, so they turned up the boost and \u201cswung for the world record\u201d. On his 7.74 pass, Davis was just over a tenth of a second behind Zdung Ho\u2019s record of 7.62, so with a little extra power and enough launch grip, that world record was within reach. On that first elimination round run at Streetcar Braggin Rights, Davis and his Charger ran a 7.61 at 180 miles per hour \u2013 claiming the quarter-mile world record for a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe get back to the pits and everyone’s yelling … your front bumper! The turbos crushed in the front bumper due to air pressure\/vacuum of the turbos behind the front bumper. We\u2019ve got to take off the front bumper and back to racing. Then, in the second and third rounds, we turned the car down. But the car runs a 7.70 flat both times. How are we faster? The turbos are getting the proper amount of air now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the Heavyweight finals came around, Davis was set to race against George Benson, who pilots the world\u2019s quickest Cadillac CTS-V and who has won a great many Heavyweight drag racing shootouts over the past few years. Davis says that he was panicking a bit, but Nicolas Performance assured him that \u201cwe got this\u201d. He was right, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final round, Colby Davis pulled a better reaction time, grabbing an early lead over Benson\u2019s Cadillac and never looked back. Not only did Davis win the Heavyweight class with that final round run, but he also reset the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat quarter-mile record, running a 7.536 at 181 miles per hour. You can watch that exciting final round action in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n